
Cast
Acting
Cast
Known for
Acting
Born
1890-04-25
From
Monterey, California, USA
Died
1948-11-09
Also known as E. Livingston Kennedy, Ed. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890 – November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film character actor, known as "Slow Burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper. Kennedy is best known for a small role as a lemonade vendor in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup, as well as the many Hal Roach films he appeared in. Kennedy became so identified with frustration that practically every studio hired him to play hotheads. He often played dumb cops, detectives, and even a prison warden; sometimes he was a grouchy moving man, truck driver, or blue-collar workman. His character usually lost his temper at least once. In Diplomaniacs, Kennedy presides over an international tribunal, where Wheeler & Woolsey want to do something about world peace. "Well, ya can't do anything about it here", yells Kennedy, "this is a peace conference!" Kennedy, established as the poster boy for frustration, even starred in an instructional film titled The Other Fellow, in which loudmouthed roadhog Edgar always vents his anger on other drivers (each one played by Kennedy as well), little realizing that, to them, he is "the other fellow." Perhaps his most unusual roles were as a puppeteer in the detective mystery The Falcon Strikes Back and as a philosophical bartender inspired to create exotic cocktails in Harold Lloyd's last film, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947). He also played comical detectives opposite two titans of acting: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century (1934) and Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours (1948); in the latter, he tells conductor Harrison that "Nobody handles Handel like you handle Handel." Kennedy died of throat cancer at the Motion Picture Hospital, San Fernando Valley on 9 November 1948. His body was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.

as Collis P. Kennedy

as Elmer

as Edgar

as The Husband, Mr Glenders

as Man in Phone Booth

as Motorist

as Kelsey


as Uncle Edgar

as An American Tourist

as Edgar Kennedy


as The Cop

as Chairman - Peace Conference

as Edgar Kennedy

as Edgar

as Street Vendor

as Pop Randall

as Joe Bledsoe

as Lieutenant Miller

as Police Captain

as Edgar


as Landlord

as Officer Donovan


as Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)

as Detective

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

as 2nd Sailor

as Ethel's Former Boyfriend

as Edgar

as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)

as Nepomuk - the Hermit

as Edgar

as Edgar Kennedy

as Lover

as Judd

as Ptomaine Tommy

as The cafe waiter (uncredited)

as Sgt. Homer Gatling

as Edgar

as Captain Bullwinkle

as Willy 'Persimmon' Bates

as Sheriff

as Oscar McGonigle

as Judge Kennedy

as Judge

as Jimmie Pierson

as Wreck Bystander (uncredited)

as Captain Mack

as Rajah

as Callahan

as Edgar

as Kegs McKeever

as Detective


as Happy Moran

as Striking Baker

as Crook (uncredited)

as Edgar

as Dr. Glenn

as Edgar Kennedy

as Maydorf

as Biff

as Edgar

as Sweeney

as Edwin Rowley, Jr.

as Insp. Mulrooney

as Cop (as Ed Kennedy)

as Edgar

as Jake

as Sheriff Judd

as Onderdonk

as Edgar Kennedy

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as Detective


as Judge John J. McGuinnis

as The Maid's Boyfriend

as Director (uncredited)

as Spike

as An Innocent Bystander

as Golfer (uncredited)

as Herbert

as Darsey

as Herman Wilson

as Mayor Moe Carson

as Edgar

as Jake the Bartender

as Smiley Dugan

as Officer Kennedy

as Detective

as Edgar

as Shell Game Operator

as Edgar

as Four Roles

as Gloomy Gus

as Officer Kennedy

as Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited)


as Tough Guy in Bar

as Policeman (uncredited)

as Fatty's Neighbor

as Cyclone Flynn (uncredited)

as Butler

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as A Photographer

as O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy)

as Edgar

as The Slicker's Chauffeur

as Judge

as Edgar

as Landlady's Husband (uncredited)

as Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited)

as Edgar Kennedy

as Edgar

as Michael Kennedy

as The Sky Pirate

as Diamond Dan - Jim's Rival

as Warden Elmer Jones

as Harry, the Bartender

as Mr. Carp

as Uncle Charlie

as Bowling Alley Operator

as Warden Bingham

as archive footage


as Bugs Leary

as Cop

as Windy

as Edgar Kennedy

as Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)


as Callaghan

as Police Lt. Garrison


as Edgar

as Mahoney

as Edgar

as Laughing Spectator

as Police Chief Murphy

as Buffington-Doorman

as Edgar

as Cornelius Cornpone

as Policeman

as The Cop

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Cop


as 1st Cop

as Water Wagon Driver (uncredited)

as Police Captain McGuire

as Pops

as Spectator

as Handout-Giver (uncredited)

as Rudolf Hochstetter

as Chauffeur

as A City Chap

as Audience Member / Cop in Movie

as Lem Beeman

as Night Club Patron

as Joe Barton

as Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter

as The Trouble Mender

as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)

as Sgt. Ed Cooper

as Counterman

as Edgar

as Arthur Bailey

as Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited)

as Police Chief

as Daddy Warbucks

as Tony Peanutty - Italian Ward Leader

as Cop


as Water Policeman

as Marion's Boyfriend's Boss

as Officer Kennedy

as Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited)

as Cop

as Sweeney

as Mr. Basscombe

as Edgar

as Healy, Process Server

as The Detective

as Police Officer McCarthy

as SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

as 3rd Deputy

as The Groom

as Café Proprietor

as Detective Donahue


as Bosun Higgins

as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)

as Edgar Kennedy

as Paper Hanger

as Henry


as Edgar Kennedy

as Sam Gilroy

as Herbert Green

as 1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited)

as George Browning

as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)

as Daniel Webster Smith

as Detective (uncredited)

as Edgar


as Officer Thurston

as Guard (uncredited)

as George Browning

as Officer (archive footage)

as Officer Rafferty

as Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage)

as Cop

as Cop

as Howard J. Green

as Edgar

as Cpl. Ryan

as Inspector Dailey

as Station Master Kennedy (uncredited)

as Quimby the Lawyer

as Sgt. Buck Martin

as Cop (uncredited)

as Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle

as Inspector Murch

as Henchman

as Corporal Austin

as Fire Chief Galvin

as Donovan

as Ed Eggers (uncredited)

as Gewilliker Hay

as Officer Kennedy (archive footage)

as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)

as Edgar Kennedy

as Cop

as Eric Johnson

as Edgar

as Neighbor

as Baldy

as Cop (uncredited)

as German Prison Guard (uncredited)

as Pete

as Orchestra Leader

as Cop

as Edgar Kennedy

as Sheriff Renick

as Mike Reynolds

as Edgar Kennedy

as Sheriff Gregory

as Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent

as 1st Crook


as Diner's Owner


as Thelma's Last Rescuer

as The Wife's Brother

as Ed Wimpy

as Suitor

as O'Brien


as Edgar Kennedy


as Mustached Man

as The Cop

as Bicarbonate

as Detective (as Edward Kennedy)

as The Crook

as Edgar Kennedy

as Thelma's Father (uncredited)

as Edgar


as Edgar

as Cop

as Caesar - Zuzu's Rival

as Detective

as Uncle Ed Sutton

as Policeman

as Jealous Cop

as Wedding Guest

as Jealous Boyfriend

as Fatty's Pal

as Trayguard

as Tom Grady


as Edgar, Movie Director

as Edgar Kennedy

as Edgar Kennedy

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as Cop

as Cicero the Cop

as Edgar

as Hank Hall

as Bill Sproat

as Edgar

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as Edgar

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as Art Gallery Operator


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as 2nd Thief



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as Edgar Kennedy

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as Officer Ed Kennedy

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as The Rival

as Chauncey

as Fiancee's Father

as Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy)



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